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A child born today will be 20 when the antimony runs out.

40% of antimony goes to ammunition. The reserves are 2 million tonnes. We mine 100,000 tonnes a year. The sum does itself. (USGS Antimony 2025)

What this page is

This is a free resource pack for anyone who has a friend, a partner, a parent, or a neighbour who works at a defence contractor. Or for anyone who has stopped at one of the posters and wants the working.

It is not a campaign. It is a set of pages with sums on them. The sums come from the United States Geological Survey, the International Energy Agency, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, BloombergNEF, and the companies’ own websites. The sources are linked at every step.

Use what is useful. Ignore what is not. Print, share, paste, screenshot.

Everything here is dedicated to Em.

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A printable, shareable, paste-able 5-tier pack. Posters, stickers, social tiles, A5 flyers, an A4 factsheet, WhatsApp drops, group-chat drops, reel scripts, an MP letter template, organiser talking points, a designer brief, and a framing audit.

What is inside:

  • Tier 1 — Street: 3 posters, 7 social tiles, 6 stickers
  • Tier 2 — Doorstep: A5 flyer, A6 pocket explainer
  • Tier 3 — Factsheet: A4 double-sided, sources at every figure
  • Tier 4 — Travel: WhatsApp drops, group-chat drops, 3 reel scripts, MP letter template, organiser talking points
  • Tier 5 — Index: tagline bank, README, designer brief, framing audit

Section 3 — The single page version

If you only want one page, take the factsheet.

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The headline numbers

MineralYears of reserves left at current productionMain use
Antimony20Ammunition (40% of US use)
Cobalt38Jet engines (51%)
Copper43Wiring, motors, grid
Tungsten57Armour-piercing rounds, machine tools

Source for all four: USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025. Antimony detail: USGS Antimony 2025. Cobalt detail: USGS Cobalt 2025. Tungsten detail: USGS Tungsten 2025.

The arithmetic that ends the argument

World military spending in 2024: $2,718 billion. (SIPRI 2024)

World clean-energy investment in 2024: $2,100 billion. (BloombergNEF 2025)

The transition to clean energy needs 700 million tonnes of copper between now and 2040. (IEA Critical Minerals 2021)

The copper reserves are 1,000 million tonnes. (USGS 2025)

Every tonne of antimony fired out of a barrel is a tonne that does not go into a solar farm, a turbine bearing, a flame-retardant in a hospital wall.

Taglines

  • A child born today will be 20 when the antimony runs out.
  • We are firing the last of the periodic table out of barrels.
  • 40% of antimony goes to bullets. 20 years of reserves left. Do the sum.
  • A jet engine eats 51% of the world’s cobalt. A wind turbine eats none.
  • Leonardo’s own website says 98% of EU rare earths come from China. They wrote it. We read it.
  • $2.7 trillion on weapons. $2.1 trillion on the transition. The shortfall is the planet.
  • Every round fired is a solar panel that will never be built.
  • The minerals are finite. The wars are not. Pick one.

Sources